Office Definition–noun | 1. | a room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted: the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office. | | 2. | a room assigned to a specific person or a group of persons in a commercial or industrial organization: Her office is next to mine. | | 3. | a business or professional organization: He went to work in an architect's office. | | 4. | the staff or designated part of a staff at a commercial or industrial organization: The whole office was at his wedding. | | 5. | a position of duty, trust, or authority, esp. in the government, a corporation, a society, or the like: She was elected twice to the office of president. | | 6. | employment or position as an official: to seek office. | | 7.
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Furniture Definition–noun | 1. | the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like. | | 2. | fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something. | | 3. | equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins. | | 4. | Also called bearer, dead metal. Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of
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Store Definition–noun | 1. | an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis. | | 2. | a grocery: We need bread and milk from the store. | | 3. | a stall, room, floor, or building housing or suitable for housing a retail business. | | 4. | a supply or stock of something, esp. one for future use. | | 5. | stores, supplies of food, clothing, or other requisites, as for a household, inn, or naval or military forces. | | 6. | Chiefly British. a storehouse or warehouse. | | 7. | quantity, esp. great quantity; abundance, or plenty: a rich store of grain. | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to supply or stock with something, as for future use. | | 9. | to accumulate or put away, for future use (usually fol. by up or away). | | 10. | to deposit in a storehouse, warehouse, or other place for keeping. | | 11. | Computers. to put or retain (data) in a memory unit. | –verb (used without object) | 12. | to take in or hold supplies, goods, or articles, as for future use. | | 13. | to remain fresh and usable for considerable time on being stored: Flour stores well. | –adjective | 14. | bought from a store; commercial: a loaf of store bread. | —Idioms | 15. | in store, | a. | in readiness or reserve. | | b. | about to happen; imminent: There is a great deal of trouble in store for them if they persist in their ways. | | | 16. | set or lay store by, to have high regard for; value; esteem: She sets great store by good character. | |
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